Jane Kramer

Jane Kramer is a current European correspondent for The New Yorker, where she started as a staff writer in 1964. She began her career as a staff writer for the Village Voice and has later taught at Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence, CUNY, and the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1970, most of Kramer's work for the magazine has covered aspects of European culture, politics, and social history. Many of these articles have been collected in three books: "Unsettling Europe" (1980), which won the Prix Européen de l'Essai "Charles Veillon" and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction; and "The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany" (1996). She is a member at the Council on Foreign Relations, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, and founding director at Committee to Protect Journalists. She received an Emmy Award for documentary filmmaking, National Book Award, and National Magazine Award.